From e-commerce startups like Tictail in Sweden and fashion websites like ASOS Marketplace in the UK, to car rental services like Wheeliz in France and on-demand delivery services like Glovo in Spain, Stripe Connect is behind a growing number of the most innovative platforms and companies in Europe. Connect is the payments platform for platforms that need to accept money and pay out to third parties. Today, we're extending new payment routing and integration options for Connect in all countries that Stripe supports in Europe, in order to help platforms and marketplaces scale how they work around the world.

Custom accounts are available in Europe

We’re expanding support for Custom accounts to all European countries, in addition to Standard accounts. With Custom accounts, platforms can completely customize the user experience, including the onboarding, dashboard, and reporting UIs.

Because navigating the regulatory landscape for platform payments is very complicated, we've also written a comprehensive guide for how platforms can reason about compliance. Connect offers marketplaces operating across Europe a fully compliant set up under PSD2, which goes into effect in January 2018.

Discover new ways of routing payments

In addition to this, we’ve also worked on enabling more flexible ways to route funds, such as:

One-to-many payments, enabling platforms to split a payment from a single customer between multiple recipients. French moving service Les Tontons Livreurs uses this feature to split payments between their platform and multiple drivers that may provide services.

Many-to-many payments, enabling platforms to split funds between multiple consumers and multiple third-party vendors or providers. Platforms use Connect to track every part of their payments flow in one place, and they don’t have to manually build and manage a ledger.

Holding funds gives companies like Crowdcube a way to wait before paying out. They can now mitigate risk by waiting until after a campaign or event has occurred before paying the fundraiser or event organizer.

Account Debits enables booking platforms like Musement to charge museums and theatres across Europe for ancillary services straight from their Stripe balance. (They no longer have to collect a credit card to charge their connected accounts.)